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i think that when we came here

[12/3/10 12:53:33 AM] Maria X. Liu: we were all much more open

[12/3/10 12:53:36 AM] Maria X. Liu: just electing to come here shows that

[12/3/10 12:53:44 AM] Maria X. Liu: and then we projected that openness onto the city when it was really our own

[12/3/10 12:53:50 AM] Priya Sikerwar: yes exactly

[12/3/10 12:54:00 AM] Priya Sikerwar: because i was thinking about it the other day

[12/3/10 12:54:36 AM] Priya Sikerwar: and i was wondering if we just happened to be really lucky with the people here, or if a lot of it had to do with the situation we were placed in, and so people weren't afraid to be real

[12/3/10 12:55:10 AM] Priya Sikerwar: and i mean i don't think it's one or the other, probably a combination of the two. but for a while, i was really just starting to hate people in general

[12/3/10 12:55:52 AM] Maria X. Liu: it's both really

[12/3/10 12:55:53 AM] Priya Sikerwar: and now i see how wonderful they can be

[12/3/10 12:55:55 AM] Maria X. Liu: i figured this out in shanghai

[12/3/10 12:56:04 AM] Maria X. Liu: because we were all decontextualized to some extent

[12/3/10 12:56:24 AM] Maria X. Liu: (except people who were really close to each other already and perpetuated their contexts)

[12/3/10 12:56:31 AM] Maria X. Liu: and because of that

[12/3/10 12:56:34 AM] Maria X. Liu: we had to be our real selves

[12/3/10 12:56:55 AM] Maria X. Liu: fueled by a city that's passionate

[12/3/10 12:56:56 AM] Maria X. Liu: artistic

[12/3/10 12:56:58 AM] Maria X. Liu: beautiful

[12/3/10 12:57:06 AM] Priya Sikerwar: my god i love paris so much

[12/3/10 12:57:12 AM] Maria X. Liu: that was absorbed into our permeable decontextualized minds